Supporters of the Iranian Resistance staged two rallies on Saturday, January 16 in downtown Amsterdam and outside the Dutch Parliament in The Hague condemning gross human rights violations in Iran, especially mass executions by the Iranian regime.
Participants in these rallies also called on the major world powers to set aside the appeasement policy vis-à-vis the “godfather of terrorism” in Iran. These protesters also called for practical measures by the international community in condemning the practice of executions and torture in Iran, and placing senior Iranian regime officials before international tribunals.
The placards raised by the protesters read in part that the mullahs’ president Hassan Rouhani is the president of 2,000 executions and any rapprochement with the Iranian regime must be contingent upon on the termination of executions in Iran.
In the first 16 days of January, the mullahs’ inhumane regime in Iran has sent 53 prisoners, including 1 woman, to the gallows in various towns. Four of these prisoners were hanged in public and most of the prisoners were executed in groups.
The human rights situation has been deteriorating rapidly in Iran. More than 2,000 individuals have been executed during Hassan Rouhani’s tenure as President of the regime. This is the highest rate of executions in the past 25 years, and it reflects an increase over figures that had already secured Iran’s place as the nation with the most executions per capita.
On December 17, 2015, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution strongly condemning the brutal and systematic violation of human rights in Iran, in particular the mass and arbitrary executions, increasing violence and discrimination against women and ethnic and religious minorities.
Following the adoption of the 62nd UN resolution censuring human rights abuses in Iran, the Iranian Resistance’s President-elect Maryam Rajavi called on the UN Security Council to hold the leaders of the clerical regime accountable and prosecute them for crimes against humanity. She underlined that this is a necessary step towards respecting the international community’s vote that condemned the systematic and flagrant violations of human rights in Iran.
